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embeam

embeam verb: to make brilliant with beams.

Verb

embeam (third-person singular simple present embeams, present participle embeaming, simple past and past participle embeamed)

  1. (transitive) To make brilliant with beams.
    • lively colours did embeam
      His sparkling forehead1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death

Forms of embeam

third-person singular presentembeams
present participleembeaming
past participleembeamed
pastembeamed

Origin of embeam

From em- + beam.

Questions about embeam

What does embeam mean?
Embeam means to make brilliant with beams.
What part of speech is embeam?
Embeam is a verb.
What is the past tense of embeam?
The past tense of embeam is embeamed.

Words near embeam in the dictionary

  1. embayments
  2. embays
  3. Embden
  4. Embden groats
  5. Embdens
  6. embeam
  7. embeamed
  8. embeaming
  9. embeams
  10. embed
  11. embeddability

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